You can keep your digital hell

[venta]

An appeal to the technical cognoscenti:

A while ago, I bought some CD-Rs, made by Memorex, which claimed to be "audio compact discs" and warn on the packet, in big letters, "for music only".

Sadly, at the point of purchase, I failed to notice that they were CD-RWs - suitable for music they may be, but they won't play in the majority of CD players.

I'm now in need of a generic blank CD to put a data file on (it is, in fact, the bit of graphics I was faffing about with last night). Now, is it OK to disregard the large "for music only" warning ? I'm inclined to assume that the discs probably aren't much different from normal - and, while they may be in some way optimised for music (how?), they'll probably do just fine as data discs really.

Anyone have any idea ?

Comments

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

As I understand it (I have never actually used one of those discs) it's not that they are optimised for music; they just have a flag set on them somewhere which indicates that you have paid extra for them, which hi-fi component CD writers check for (you are paying a licence to rip-off music).

I would anticipate that they would work fine as regular data discs ... but check to see what (if any) speed they say they can be recorded at. The CD writers they were intended for would write very slowly, so in the absence of any other information I'd write them as slowly as you can.